NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Quartet that reunited in 2022 to “perform” as holograms 5 Hell’s Half ___
(Wyoming landmark) 9 Chromosomes
come in them 14 Croc, for one
15 Big name in bubbly 16 Condition linked
with grinding teeth 17 District on the western coast of Hawaii
18 Craisin brand 20 Female scholars 22 Lead-in to zone 23 Smallish batteries 24 Author Patchett 27 Components of Mars’ Viking and Pathfinder 30 Intrinsic makeup 33 Fabric whose name is French for “cloth”
35 Hirsute cousin of
old TV
36 Gooey addition to a
charcuterie board 37 Where turn signals
are found 41 Delicacies for which Aveiro, Portugal, is known 42 “Surely you don’t
mean me!?” 43 Speechless
expression 44 Showstoppers? 45 Bach composition 48 Scratch, say
49 It might be cocked
or bent
50 NBA’s Westbrook,
to fans 52 Grammy winners for “Jump (for My Love)” (1984) 59 “Apologies for
bothering you ...” 60 Massage deeply 62 Mosquito, by
nature
63 Chip in
64 Ski lift
65 Dutch settlers of
South Africa
66 & 67 One of two pen names punnily hinted at by 20-, 37- and 52-Across (can you find the other one?)
DOWN
1 “Oh, no!”
2 Explode
3 Pro ___
4 Best effort 5 Egyptian sun god 6 Result of some
spinning
7 Danger for a mariner 8 Abbreviated
abbreviation
9 They might be served carbonara or puttanesca 10 Datebook data: Abbr. 11 About, on a memo 12 Vanguard’s opposite 13 “Survey ___ ...” (“Family Feud” catchphrase) 19 Almost adjoining 21 Swiss mathematician who introduced functional notation 24 Totally confused 25 Prominent 26 Physicist Bohr 28 You can count on it 29 Abbreviated abbreviation 30 Amateur pediatrician, informally 31 Strong, silent type? 32 Norse pantheon 34 Paul for whom a
guitar is named 36 Backside
38 Turkish inn
39 Prefix with apology
or denial
40 “He is richest who is content with the ___”: Socrates 45 Supplies, as a soiree 46 Stiff bristle,
botanically 47 Elephant or
warthog, e.g.
49 Put in
51 Company with Counting Sheep commercials 52 Last name in soft
drinks
53 Reds state
54 “Not hungry yet,
but thanks anyway” 55 Word with “Revolutionary” or “Tobacco,” in book titles 56 In one’s right mind 57 ___ Stark, Lord Eddard’s eldest on “Game of Thrones” 58 Unit of meat or marble
61 Fish hatchlings
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